Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conservative League may ask Dean Watson to cancel a concert of ballad-singer Pete Seoger '40, sponsored by the Society for Minority Rights, Kenneth E. Thompson '57, league president, said yesterday...
...past two years with their pockets bulging with trade orders have given glowing reports of the friendly attitude of Soviet business bigwigs, particularly Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Britain wearing the new, or post-Malenkov, hard-hat look. They wanted to cancel or modify earlier orders for consumer capital goods. Estimated value of cancellations (mostly for textile and shoemaking machinery) to date...
Congressional Democrats last week figured they had found a way to kill the Dixon-Yates contract. By a strict party-line vote of 10 to 8, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy passed a resolution calling on AEC to cancel its $107 million contract to provide 600,000 kw. of power from a new steam plant to be built at West Memphis, Ark. Then the committee proceeded to make it as tough as possible for AEC to ignore its wishes. It rescinded a waiver voted last year on the committee's right to study the contract...
...effect of the committee's action was to throw up such a legal dust storm that the air may never clear, thus forcing both Dixon-Yates and AEC to cancel the contract. The Democrats say that the previous committee had no right to grant a waiver while Congress was out of session. Thus, by rescinding the waiver, the contract is right back where it started and must now lie before the Joint Committee for 30 days...
...original airline went under, after serving the Loyalist cause during the Spanish civil war. Its successor was started in 1937 by Franco, who needed a transport service, and asked Germany's Lufthansa for help. But in World War II, when Britain and the U.S. warned Spain to cancel its agreement with Germany or lose its gasoline supplies, Franco nationalized the company, has since bought up the stock from private investors...